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Click on the image to enlarge Click here for another view	Lot 46 Saint Louis antique scrambled with silhouettes paperweight, "Venetian ball" style, with whole and broken complex canes, including cog, floret, anchor, and six-point star canes, pieces of latticinio and filigrana twists in a cacophony of yellow, pink, salmon, cobalt, thalo blue, violet, red and chartreuse. There are two distinct silhouette canes, one of a turkey and one of two girls dancing. An additional delight: a silhouette cane of the Saint Louis dancing man with a staff, hidden on the underside of the paperweight. (See detail page 16.) Diameter 3". $1500-2000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 47 Saint Louis antique jasper paneled paperweight. Surrounding a pink and white swirling "turban-shaped" latticinio center, are a ring of spaced canes and eight white spokes, dividing green and red jasper panels. The millefiori are very distinguishable, in spite of the vivid multi-colored ground. A blue and white torsade rings the paperweight. A distinctive design that collectors will immediately attribute to the highly inventive Cristalleries de Saint Louis. Diameter 3". $800-900
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 48 Saint Louis antique scattered millefiori paperweight, with a large central blue and white cog cane, encircled by a ring of five spaced canes and a border garland, all aloft on a sumptuous cushion of upset muslin. Some bits of white glass float under the dome. "Filigree was also known to the Venetian glass-makers in the 16th century. This technique consisted of setting white enamel canes ('milk white': Italian, 'latticinio') in a mold, side by side. The glass-maker slowly pours a mass of clear crystal into the center of the mold, the crystal thus covering the white enamel canes. After lifting this mass is twisted by two glass-makers holding and stretching it. The twisting produces 'filigree,' a type of lace or muslin in a swirl." - Paperweights of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Diameter 3 9/16". $2500-3250
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 49 Saint Louis antique scrambled paperweight with whole and broken complex canes, including cog, floret, quatrefoil, six-point star, pieces of latticinio and filigrana with aventurine and colored twists. A "frit" salad of cadmium yellow, pink, salmon, cobalt, thalo blue, violet, red and citron-colored glass. There is a complex silhouette cane near the center of the paperweight featuring a devil in the detail. Diameter 2 7/8". $1100-1500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 50 Saint Louis antique patterned millefiori paperweight with complex center cane in an amber-hue. This is encircled by five spaced floret and star canes in red and cobalt. An alternating ring of complex canes in pink and green offer even more diminutive rings of anchor, star, and floret canes. All on a swirling white latticinio cushion. Diameter 3 1/8". $1200-2000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 51 Saint Louis antique concentric millefiori mushroom paperweight. A delicate azure blue floral cane rests at the center, encircled by boldly designed cog and six-pointed star canes in blue, white and red. The canes at the edge of the mushroom create a peacock-feather design in red and green, as the canes' stalks taper to the bottom of this unusual paperweight, ringed by a blue and white torsade. Diameter 3". $1600-2000